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just for giggles i un-hacked the mtus and ran for an hour with no
one using the wireless

soek0.psg.com:/root# netstat -i
Name    Mtu Network       Address              Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs  Coll
vr0    1500 <Link#1>      00:00:24:c8:b3:28    19022     0    16015     0     0
vr1    1500 <Link#2>      00:00:24:c8:b3:29        0     0       51     0     0
vr2    1500 <Link#3>      00:00:24:c8:b3:2a       20     0       66     0     0
vr3    1500 <Link#4>      00:00:24:c8:b3:2b    15710     0    32628     0     0
ath0   1500 <Link#5>      00:0b:6b:83:59:25        0 737819     185     0     0
lo0   16384 <Link#6>                              40     0       40     0     0
lo0   16384 fe80:6::1     fe80:6::1                0     -        0     -     -
lo0   16384 localhost     ::1                      0     -        0     -     -
lo0   16384 your-net      localhost               42     -       42     -     -
bridg  1500 <Link#7>      d6:3e:c6:9c:31:a7    15732     0    18559     0     0
bridg  1500 192.168.0.0   soek0                  143     -      382     -     -
tun0   1454 <Link#8>                           18938     0    15926     0     0
tun0   1454 210.138.216.5 50.216.138.210.bn     1293     -      765     -     -

note the 737819 Ierrs with zero actually packets on the wire.

how do i debug?

this is a metrix CM9 miniPCI (<http://metrix.net/cm9-p-2.html>) in
a soekris 5501 running very -current.

ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xa0010000-0xa001ffff irq 15 at device 17.0 on pci0
ath0: [ITHREAD]
ath0: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
ath0: Ethernet address: 00:0b:6b:83:59:25
ath0: mac 5.9 phy 4.3 radio 3.6

how do i debug?

randy